FISHTERM bilingual dictionary Search results for 'Raising' (1 record(s))
RECORD 1
| RECORD No. | 343 |
| AUTHOR | ELAD D. F. |
| DATE OF CREATION | |
| LAST UPDATE | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
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| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Extrapolation statut: préféré | ||||
| PART OF SPEECH | nom féminin | ||||
| DEFINITION |
Procédure d'estimation du total à partir d'un échantillon, en multipliant toutes les fractions de l'échantillon par un "facteur d'élévation" égal à la proportion du total que l'échantillon représente. | ||||
| PLURAL | Extrapolations ; | ||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE | Fishterm | ||||
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| TERM | * Raising statut: préféré | ||||
| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||
| DEFINITION |
A procedure for estimating the total from a sample, by multiplying all the fractions in the sample by a “raising factor” equal to the proportion of the total which the sample represents. | ||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
SCRS (2001) | ||||
| NOTES | For example, the total catch at size for a fishery is obtained by raising catch-at-size samples to the magnitude of the total catches, i.e. by multiplying the sampled numbers times the ratio of sample weight to total catch weight (or the ratio of sample numbers to total numbers). | ||||
